I’ve been itchin’ to tell you guys about this and now I can: we’ve optimized the VU homepage for the iPhone. Ta dah! Lion’s share of credit goes to the Vanderbilt News Service’s mad programmer Mike Petruna.

What makes it cool, IMHO – the snazzy yet simple design, it’s populated with RSS feeds from all of our main news sites, it works nicely with our iTunes U and YouTube spaces, the special content for prospective students, and the nice little Vandy V you get on your iPhone homescreen when you click on the + sign.

Oh, and the fact that as far as I can tell we’re one of the only universities so far to have done this. Many more exciting things coming for higher ed and the iPhone, of course.